I love books. Love to hold them, flip backwards through them, stack them on a table, share them with my friends and, of course, read them.

And I loved making the new book EAT: Los Angeles. It was more work than I ever imagined, true, but the entire process was tremendously rewarding, from putting together the writing team to finding the printer that could do the die-cut chapter tabs that designer Joseph Shuldiner and I wanted so badly.

But of course the book became a fixed-in-time object the moment we sent it off to print. And the team and I want EAT to be a living, breathing project that keeps us all connected in the quest for L.A.’s best food, wine and kitchen sources. Hence the EAT: Los Angeles blog.

We’ll be regularly posting new listings for restaurants, shops, coffeehouses, taquerias, you name it. You’ll find those in New Eats. We’ll let you know what’s closed from the book (hey, it happens) in RIP. What Pat Says links to the great blog by EAT team member Pat Saperstein. Good Food Neighborhood will showcase one of the city’s best food-loving communities each month. And every day or three, one of the EAT team — me, Linda Burum, Jean Barrett, Jenn Garbee, Amelia Saltsman, Joseph Shuldiner and a few special guests – will post something here. Maybe it’s news of an event, or a new product in a market, or a talk with a farmer, or . . . who knows?

If you love to eat and you love L.A., you’re with us. I hope you visit often.